True Crime

Going beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without witnesses.

How do you identify a serial killer?

What are the tell-tale signs of guilt?

Can we now solve the unsolvable?

Since even before the first season of Silent Witness in 1996, forensic science has played an increasingly important role in the investigation of violent crimes. With a boom in cold-blooded cases throughout the 1980s, police began to rely on DNA evidence to help them find perpetrators and since then forensic science has taken off as a powerful tool in solving murders.

Bestselling true crime author Wensley Clarkson takes us beyond the headlines to examine the real-life stories where forensics have played a crucial role. He speaks to experts who have worked on the most gruesome, most chilling and most shocking crime scenes and explains how notorious criminal cases from across the world were solved. And he shows how the silent witness is often the one who screams the loudest.

The true story of London's toughest, deadliest street gangs: the events, the rules and the real top boys.

Are the streets of London some of the deadliest in the world? What's the truth behind the headlines? And who are the real top boys?

Looking beyond the hit TV series, The Real Top Boys reveals the lives of the street gangs who have taken over, and now rule, dozens of corners of the UK's capital. Bestselling true crime author Wensley Clarkson takes us on a tour of the housing estates and volatile neighborhoods where pride, rivalry and revenge are the codes people live and die by.

He talks to the criminals who have helped create this chilling modern-day underworld and recounts the vicious turf wars that changed the map, unravels the rules and rights of the streets, and charts the rise and fall of many of the game's key players over the decades that have transformed the city. Featuring interviews with real-life gangsters and told in a gripping story that lays bare the hard life in this world, The Real Top Boys is the ultimate account of gang life in London and a jaw-dropping look at who really runs the streets.

A unique and unbelievable first-hand account of how one man fought his way to the top of the criminal underworld… and what he needed to do to stay there.

As you read this, someone somewhere is buying drugs.

Across the globe, millions of people are involved in the brutal, cold-blooded world of drug dealing, but only a small number make life-changing money. Only a few get to the top, make the calls, know how it all works and truly become drugs lords. And even fewer survive.

I know because I am one of those drug lords.

After thirty years, I’ve decided to retire and tell the story of how I got to the top of this tainted profession, what’s involved in being a serious criminal, the tricks of the trade, the art of the deal and what it really takes to stay alive for so long.

This will be my last confession. And I hope you learn something.

Unedited, uncensored and unbelievable: this book shows the harsh reality of life behind bars from a real prison governor who spares no details. 

How do you bring order to the lawless? 

The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and street-level drug dealers to crime bosses and dangerous serial killers.  

Since starting as a rookie, he has experienced the reality of the UK’s harsh prison system and the hard challenge of ruling those within it.  

In his own words, the Secret Prison Governor spares no detail of prison life, whether that’s breaking up shiv fights, crushing vast underworld networks, negotiating with hostage-takers or dealing with full-scale cellblock gang wars. 

This is the truth of what life is like behind bars. 

The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades.
Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don't even realise.
I've been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as a fulltime professional assassin has never been easy.
There have been close calls, failed attempts and a lot of looking over my shoulder.
And now, I've decided to come clean and seek atonement for my life as a murderer and one of the most covertly dangerous men alive.
This is an account of a life lived between our world and a shadowy underworld of criminals… a life lived under the radar of the law… a life lived in death.
This is the story of my life as a hitman.